Commemoratives of Famous Women for 27 February 2012

200. birthday: Emmy Danckwerts
hospital director (Henriettenstift Hannover)
* 27 February 1812 in bei Lüchow
† 12 April 1865 in Hannover

150. birthday: Agnes Branting
Swedish
* 27 February 1862 in Värmland
† 13 April 1930 in Stockholm

80. birthday: Elizabeth Taylor
American-English actress and AIDS activist
* 27 February 1932 in London
† 23 March 2011 in Los Angeles

215. birthday: Manuela Saenz
Ecuadorian reedom fighter; national shero
* 27 February 1797 in Quito, heutiges Ecuador;
† 23 November 1856 in Paita, Peru

165. birthday: Ellen Terry
English actress, mother of Edith Craig und Edward Gordon Craig
* 27 February 1847 in Coventry
† 21 July 1928 in Smallhythe near Tenterden, Kent

105. birthday: Paola Wiesinger Steger
South Tyrolian alpinist
* 27 February 1907 in Bozen
† 12 June 2001 in auf der Seiser Alm

197. birthday: WILHELMINE CANZ
German kindergarden pioneer; writer
* 27 February 1815 in Hornberg
† 15 January 1901 in Großheppach

194. birthday: Emma Jacobina Marwedel
American
* 27 February 1818 in Münden b. Göttingen
† 17 November 1893 in San Francisco

174. birthday: Josephine Gallmeyer (eig. J. Tomaselli)
Austrian singer, writer, actress
* 27 February 1838 in Leipzig
† 3 February 1884 in Wien

159. birthday: Kate Stephens
American writer
* 27 February 1853 in Moravia, KS
† 10 May 1938 in Lawrence

153. birthday: Bertha Pappenheim
Austrian philanthropist; Breuer/Freud"s "Anna O."
* 27 February 1859 in Wien / Vienna
† 28 May 1936 in Frankfurt-Neu-Isenburg

143. birthday: Alice Hamilton
American physician, social reformer, toxicologist, specialist on industrial diseases
* 27 February 1869 in New York
† 22 September 1970 in Hadlyme, CN

132. birthday: Angelina Weld Grimké
American
* 27 February 1880
† 10 June 1958 in New York City

124. birthday: Lotte Lehmann
German-American singer
* 27 February 1888 in Perleberg, Brandenburg
† 26 August 1976 in Sta. Barbara, CA

124. birthday: Hedwig Conrad-Martius
German philosopher
* 27 February 1888 in Berlin
† 15 February 1966 in Starnberg

109. birthday: Grethe Weiser
German actress
* 27 February 1903 in Hannover
† 2 October 1970 in Bad Tölz

106. birthday: Ilse Trautschold
German comedian
* 27 February 1906 in Berlin
† 17 May 1991 in Berlin

102. birthday: Joan Bennett
American actress
* 27 February 1910 in Palisades, NJ
† 7 December 1990 in Scarsdale, NY

86. birthday: Elisabeth Borchers
German writer, editor
* 27 February 1926 in Homberg/ Niederrhein, heute zu Duisburg

82. birthday: Joanne Gignilliat Woodward
American actress
* 27 February 1930 in Thomasville, GA

77. birthday: Mirella Freni
Italian singer
* 27 February 1935 in Modena

58. birthday: Thylias Moss
American
* 27 February 1954

70. day of death: Karoline Brader

* 14 August 1860 in Kaltbrunn
† 27 February 1943 in Pasto

70. day of death: Hedwig Burgheim
German
* 28 August 1887 in Alsleben
† 27 February 1943 in Auschwitz

20. day of death: Lillian Gish
American actress
* 14 October 1896 in Springfield, OH
† 27 February 1993 in New York, NY

20. day of death: Pina Carmirelli
Italian violinist
* 23 January 1914 in Mailand
† 27 February 1993 in Carpena

195. day of death: Anne Vallayer-Coster
French painter
* 21 December 1744 in Paris
† 27 February 1818 in Paris

45. day of death: Hertha Sponer
German physicist
* 1 September 1895 in Neisse
† 27 February 1968 in Ilten bei/near Hannover

347. day of death: Luise Francisca de Guzmán
Portuguese queen and regent
* 20 February 1613 in Sanlucar de Barrameda
† 27 February 1666 in Xabregas

253. day of death: Anna Magdalena Bach
German composer and singer; wife of J.S. Bach
* 22 September 1701 in Zeitz
† 27 February 1760 in Leipzig

177. day of death: Elizabeth Kemble Whitlock
English actress
* 2 April 1761 in Warrington
† 27 February 1836

121. day of death: Anne Jemima Clough
English
* 20 January 1820 in Liverpool
† 27 February 1892 in Cambridge

79. day of death: Berthe Art
Belgian
* 26 December 1857 in Brüssel
† 27 February 1934 in Brüssel

74. day of death: Belle Kearney
American feminist, lawyer
* 6 March 1863 in Mississippi
† 27 February 1939 in Jackson, MS

74. day of death: Nadeschda Krupskaja
Russian politician, teacher, wife of Lenin
* 26 February 1869 in St. Petersburg
† 27 February 1939 in Moskau/Moscow

74. day of death: JOHANNA AMBROSIUS
German poet
* 3 August 1854 in Lengwethen (von den Nazis 1938 in "Hohensalzburg", von der SU nach 1945 dann in "Lunino" umbenannt), Kreis Tilsit - Ragnit, Ostpreussen
† 27 February 1939 in Königsberg

49. day of death: Anna Cooper
American
* 10 August 1859 in Raleigh, NC.
† 27 February 1964 in Washington, DC

48. day of death: Lilly Hafgren-Dinkela
Swedish singer (soprano)
* 7 October 1884 in Stockholm
† 27 February 1965 in Berlin

44. day of death: Margarete von Rohrer, geb. Baronin Stoeger-Steiner, Ps. Maria M. Ferval
Austrian writer and publisher
* 11 November 1893 in Krakau
† 27 February 1969 in Baden b. Wien

38. day of death: Muriel Hazel Wright
American historian, politician
* 31 March 1889 in Lehigh, Choctaw, OK
† 27 February 1975 in Oklahoma City, OK

36. day of death: Hertha Odeman
Swedish writer
* 21 April 1890 in Malmö
† 27 February 1977

26. day of death: Joan Greenwood
English actress
* 4 March 1921 in Chelsea
† 27 February 1987 in London

17. day of death: Pat Smyth
English
* 22 November 1928
† 27 February 1996

17. day of death: Sarah Hammond Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig Palfrey
American tennis player
* 18 September 1912 in Sharon, MA
† 27 February 1996 in New York City